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The Darktown Revue

The Darktown Revue

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Balasaur Score
Rough

1931 · Movie · 18m

The read

It runs a compact 18m.

Synopsis

With a series of long takes and frontal camera set-ups, Micheaux provides a record of several cabaret acts, using intertitles to separate the individual numbers. This quietly outrageous film begins with the high-toned Heywood Choir singing "Watermelon time" and concludes with Amon Davis playing a preacher using heavy blackface. Amon Davis was known as "the Back Biting Comedian, Par Excellence", and his sermon is one of Micheaux's many notable send-ups of the clergy.

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IMDb4.8/10

6 audience votes

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